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4 years of fascism and inciting violence is all it took. This is far too little too late and Twitter is clearly complicit.
by mrsuprawsm 6y ago
4 years of fascism and inciting violence is all it took. This is far too little too late and Twitter is clearly complicit.
- eznzt 6y agoConsider yourself lucky that you have absolutely no idea what fascism looks like.
- insert_coin 6y agoAt the beginning? Exactly like this.
- leephillips 6y agoRewind a little more and just about anything is what fascism looks like “at the beginning”.
- valvar 6y agoI wouldn't go so far as to call Twitter Fascist. Authoritarian and repressive, perhaps, but their ideology is pretty different.
- dirtnugget 6y agoI think he called Trump facist
- valvar 6y agoPerhaps my sarcasm was not obvious enough.
- dirtnugget 6y agoI have real trouble spotting non-phonetic sarcasm
- bitlax 6y agoHitler owned a dog.
- mmastrac 6y agoYeah. We should have started crushing the alt-right years ago, honestly. It's pretty sad how smart people get sucked into these conspiracies and start following dear leader so quickly.
- Alupis 6y agoCan we not say the same of the Alt-Left too? Well over 100+ days of violence and destruction in major cities across the country... that's not acceptable either.
- throwaway987978 6y agoAt the extremes, both sides are the same.
- Alupis 6y agoIt is notable, however, that we did see 100+ days of political violence from the Alt-Left, billed as "Mostly Peaceful Protests", and a singular event from the Alt-Right and the entire country is up in arms. If we care about one, we must care about the other with equal vigor. Political violence is never okay, even if it is your side.
- bioinformatics 6y agoI am all for giving everyone in the right, a number tattoo so we can keep them under control, and maybe put them in specific locations around US and the world so their influence in a normal and joyous society won't be a problem for us common folks. What do you think?
- mmastrac 6y agoOh yay, a totally obvious "tattoo the jews" comment. The nazis are on the alt-right side, buddy.
- benjohnson 6y ago
- ctdonath 6y agoWho? The guy who followed the laws, albeit creatively? Or the mob that is canceling diverse thoughts on imputed pretexts?
- im3w1l 6y agoThe official east German name for the Berlin Wall was "Antifaschistischer Schutzwall". This is what communism looks like. Call anything and everything you don't like fascist, and use the scaremongering to instate tyranny.
- 4ggr0 6y agoAnd your comment is better? Yet another person calling everything more left than the middle communist. People really have no clue what communism is, astounding.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoIt looks like a thug on the floor of the senate with zip ties in hand, and we’ve seen it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/zip-cuffs-capitol-riots/
- antiquark 6y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted....
- jasondigitized 6y agoSaid the frog in the slowly warming water.
- tacocataco 6y agoWasn't the brain removed in that classic frog and boiling water experiment?
- pc86 6y agoAgreed that it's too little too late but calling Twitter "complicit" is pretty ridiculous.
- Drybones 6y agoFascism? Hardly.
- my123 6y agoAs Trump is the President of the United States, knowing what he says is in the public's interest - until the end which is reached nowadays. That's why this action happened now and not much earlier.
- grahamburger 6y agoI actually agree, and I upvoted you because I think this is worth discussion. My question here though is: does blocking Trump from Twitter really equate to blocking the public from hearing what he's saying? As someone who doesn't use and never really 'got' Twitter it's really hard for me to take Twitter that seriously. Aren't there myriad other and better ways for the president to reach more people? (Note that only a small-ish minority of U.S. adults even use Twitter at all)
- my123 6y agoSocial networks are much more informal than the other tools at the disposal of a president, unlike press releases or conferences. They can also be diffused widely and in a very short amount of time. (but then the question is? is that a good thing? or having a failsafe as a good press secretary is a better idea, even if we get to know less about what a politician really thinks)
- chillwaves 6y agoNo one here could honestly hold the position that Donald Trump is somehow silenced by this, but you'll note how many people are willing to contort themselves around this and other lies. As pointed out elsewhere, he is the President of the US and all that entails, he has plenty of ways to get his message out including even the official @POTUS twitter account. Just more dishonest nonsense that we have to wade through.
- grahamburger 6y agoThat's an interesting point about @POTUS. I wonder if they would still let him use it, and if he had already been using it if they would have blocked that, too.
- rvz 6y agoI don't think you know what the 4th word of your own sentence really means to the context of this situation.